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Bioinformatics Specialists

The responsibilities of the bioinformatics specialists for the Bernard Becker Medical Library include formal assessment of bioinformatics and basic sciences information needs of the library’s users and subsequent development and implementation of plans to meet these needs including instruction, consultation, and creation of web-based information access tools. Additionally, they liaison with the various biomedical research programs, centers, and departments with continual assessment of their information needs, implementing new programs and services as appropriate. As part of the Translational Research Support team, the bioinformatics specialists help graduate students and research faculty use bibliographic, full-text, sequence and numeric databases to solve information problems and maximize their research productivity.

• Lili Wang
• Kristi Holmes

Lili Wang, M.D., M.S.

Lili Wang began her career as a medical doctor in China. After moving to the United States, she did graduate-level work in genetics and biostatistics at the University of Alabama, where she worked extensively with the NCBI databases. Dr. Wang has a Doctorate of Medicine from Beijing Medical University and an M.S. in Biostatistics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Dr. Wang attended the NCBI course “Introduction to Molecular Biology Information Resources” in 2003. The course included: BLAST, Structure, Genomes and Maps. She was awarded the Medical Informatics fellowship by the National Library of Medicine to study at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in June 2005. Dr. Wang has taught a number of bioinformatics courses for Becker Medical Library such as Sequence Similarity Searching, Genetic Variation, Human Genome Resources and the microarray analysis software, Spotfire, since her arrival in 2002. Additionally, Dr. Wang’s work at Becker Medical Library was highlighted in a recent article, “Vignettes: diverse library staff offering diverse bioinformatics services.”*

*J Med Libr Assoc. 2006 July; 94(3): 306, E188-E191.

Kristi Holmes, Ph.D.

Kristi Holmes received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Iowa State University, where she studied conformational changes in 16S ribosomal RNA during 30S subunit assembly. Also while a student at Iowa State University, she was awarded the Iowa State University Teaching Excellence Award from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Advanced Studies. Upon receiving her Ph.D., Dr. Holmes remained in the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology as a lecturer and taught a number of courses including Structure and Reactions in Biochemical Processes, Survey of Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics.

Dr. Holmes joined the Washington University’s Becker Medical Library in June, 2006, where she is involved in the development and implementation of the Library’s Bioinformatics@Becker program, including the development and presentation of bioinformatics resource workshops for the university community, integration of molecular biology information resources into curricula, and application of bioinformatics resources to research problems through individualized consultations. Dr. Holmes was awarded the Medical Informatics fellowship by the National Library of Medicine to study at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in September 2007. Dr. Holmes currently teaches a number of bioinformatics courses for Becker Medical Library such as Sequence Similarity Searching, Introduction to NCBI Resources, Structure, and Introduction to RNA Resources. She also serves as a course developer and instructor for the NCBI Advanced Workshop for Bioinformatics Information Specialists offered by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.